NO ONE is the villain. I love how all the characters are flawed. And the conflict between them is the only real "villain". It's easier to be on Mirabel's side because we are watching from her POV, and the run time is mostly her. So, it's easy to villainize everyone else and flatten their characters into one note.
I always found the scene of Mirabel's dad finding the vision really loving and heartfelt. His first instinct was to hide the vision. Not out of embarrassment but out of love for his daughter. His motives were to protect his daughter from the rest of the family.
And it seems he wasn't going to hide it forever, he said "until the Guzman's leave, you did not-" Yada Yada Yada, so he was gonna confront the issue but not until after everything was settled down as everyone was tense about the dinner
@@hazbinotakusimp2182 yeah, it’s all about timing! Communication and honesty is good but it’s useless if you don’t present it and frame it in the right way and at the right time ❤
I just now realized that Mirabel and Casita are so close because Casita CANT go to the magic rooms, but she CAN go into the nursery, where Mirabel has been longer than anyone else in the house. Meaning Casita was probably the one cheering her up while having turmoil over being giftless and bonding with her. This movie has so many little details
casita can go into the rooms, it can't affect Bruno's specifically for the same reason that his door stopped glowing. Mirabel has been in others rooms before but was still surprised that casita couldn't help inside Bruno's.
I thought it couldn’t enter his room because he’d been cut off from the family so his room was no longer part of the house. Mirabel even sounds surprised that casita can’t enter and I don’t know why she’d sound surprised if it couldn’t enter anyones room.
Nah, Casita can work in everyone else’s rooms. It just can’t help in Bruno’s because it’s basically a “dead spot” just like the space in the walls is. After he came back it’s likely the magic will start working in his room again.
Can we please not gender the Casita it's a house I don't think anywhere hits that the house is a girl and by whatever logic you stand by it's ok for me to gender the Casita a guy but I don't I say it or the house can please not gender non human or animals that can't speak
Maybe the real villain was the generational tramua we made along the way 🤔 No, but seriously. Abuela was definitely the unintentional antagonist of the story. While trying to uphold her family to make sure they were worthy of the gifts, she neglected the PEOPLE in her family. Abuela being so focused on the miracle slowly destroyed her actual miracles; her children and grandchildren. Loved your reaction!
Yes!💯 I had many arguments with my mom and grandma growing up. They would always compare me to how they were when they were my age, instead of allowing me to be my own person. Constantly holding me to a high expectation, I felt like I would never be good enough for them. This is a huge issue for many families, especially ones with immigrant parents. I’m so glad Disney did a movie about this.
Yes, exactly. I have been looking for someone with this realization. Although Abuela is the antagonist, she is not a true villain. It was never in her intentions to hurt anyone, but the pressure that she put on the family is ultimately causing the family to collapse on itself. And what many people miss is that not only is it that this pressure that causes Bruno to leave and is most seen put on Mirabel, but it is also what is the actual cause of the magic and Casita literally collapsing in on itself.
I think Abuela's obsession with perfection and service comes from a need to "earn" the miracle like she says in the opening song. I'm guessing she has a subconscious feeling that something must be bad about her so she deserved to lose her husband, a lot of people feel irrational guilt like that.
Abuela probably has survivor guilt. She feels like she needs to live up to being saved and being given the miracle and the demanding townspeople only reinforce it since they come to the Madrigals to fix everything all the time.
Yeah, and she turned into the leader of the survivors to find their new home after pedro died and of course the miracle happening so she didnt had much time to mourn his death and prolly was pressured to keep up and help the townsfolk, due to her trauma, she had to have a perfect family if she and the townsfolk was given a miracle to have their new life and thought she had to put a facade and of course like you said she thought serving the community/townsfolk is to keep the miracle alive so she neglected the families feelings and built generational trauma, the house breaking after mirabel and abuelas fight is her realizing that their family is broken and realized the miracle was given because of pedros sacrifice and was given to have abuela had a life where she can live with her loved ones without any of you know what happened to her old village, she confronted mirabel and blamed what everything happened to herself and not mirabel when mirabel said it was her fault, she then told her mistake and never thought of why they were actually given the miracle, also someone said that the black scarf thingy is her way to represent she is still mourning and hasnt moved on, on what happened, and in the end of the movie she finally let go of the thing and has moved on
I read from someone of Colombia that the line: It looks like rain means the couple will have a bad marriage, maybe that’s why Pepa got upset (not really, she was nervous and Bruno tried to cheer her up with don’t matter what weather is, she should be happy but she took it as a prophecy, sooo a lot of misunderstandings).
@@Valandar2 i think they confirmed many things in twitter Like the ages(abuela is 75, triplets are 50 julieta is the oldest, pepa being the middle and bruno the youngest, felix is a little older, 51, while agustin is 49, younger than the triplets, due to his accident-prone, this is why julieta and agustin became a couple, both isabella and dolores being 21, isabella is the oldest of the grandchildrens, this is why she is needed to be perfect, while dolores is like a either days or months younger, and this shows that she is in the shadows of isabella because abuela likes isabella more, luisa is 19, camilo and mirabel is 15, mirabel is days or months younger because she was the last one to get a gift before antonio, and antonio is 5)
@@LorielSaysHi Yeppers, they did. Much of it would likely come out in some kind of "Art of Encanto" book, or a potential animated Disney+ TV show or something, but they did take time to actually make these statements.
The reason Isabela is Abuela's favorite is that, in addition to being the firstborn grandchild of the Madrigals, Isabela is also the family member who most strikingly resembles her when she was younger. Also, the man that Isabela was betrothed to has a striking resemblance to Abuela's late husband. Basically, Abuela is trying to recreate her past using Isabela as a physical template for herself
This video is old, but something that very little people comment about: Abuela was like, 21 or something when Pedro died. And if you pay atention to the villagers in "Dos Oruguitas", immediatly after Pedro dies, even before Abuela gets up from the ground, they are already looking at her for leadership. The lady went from a recently married, mom of three newborns young lady to grieving single mom, widow AND leader of a entry community in twenty minutes or less... That also can't have impacted well on her actitude towards the family/the miracle in general.
Adding that she talked about Pedro being "lost" in the beginning and even at the end she can't talk about what happened at the river, Mirabel needs to say the words and watch it for herself to understand the "grieve" (for not having a better word) her abuelita had gone through....
In addition, she never realised that the village would return the favour. She feared showing any family weakness and outright panicked at the thought that anyone could notice there were issues with the magic. When the villagers weren't angry at the family that they had lost their magic and even volunteered to help them rebuild the house, she was outright shocked. That was the moment that finished shattering her worldview and allowed the family's new foundation to stand strong.
Actually yes.. She was supposed to mainly hug Abuela. The vision was of abuela but Bruno said his vision is out of order. So actually the order of the vision is: The house breaking, Mirabel coming, Isabella happens, House breaks even more, The butterfly and then the hug
@@RukiyaReacts I think the hug with Isabella was extremely important though. It was the start of the repair. The house collapsed after but that was necessary for the fix. As was the talk with Abuella which was the butterfly part of the vision. The house without the cracks was most likely the rebuilt house. Each part of the vision had a purpose
I get where your coming from, and your right. But, I think your also missing the significance of Mirabel and Isabella. The magic wasn't going away because Abuela was putting too much pressure on everyone, it was breaking because that pressure was making the family dysfunctional. Isabella and Mirabel's tendency to not get along was one of the largest manifestations of this, due to neither of them being able to show their true selves and appreciate each other for who they are. When Isabella and Mirabel finally understood each other and were getting along, it was almost like the largest step in healing their family, hence the cracks going away. This being said, the issue with Abuela didn't really exist until Abuela started to belt her frustration to Mirabel, in which the dysfunctionality of the family finally reached it's tipping point when it was attacked at its source.
This movie don't need villains. Encanto is about family secrets and dysfunctional family relationships. Looking for the villain is like looking for someone to blame within the family and the problems are not really addressed 100%.
Abuela isn’t a villain but she is the main antagonist to Mirabel, she is basically the anti hero trope where they make poor choices but have good intentions at heart.
Do you know that in "We don't talk about Bruno", Pepa said "Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin" and it showed Bruno walking in with a hood. Bruno attended the Wedding to support his sister by putting a hood. Since he's socially awkward, wearing a hood gives him confidence. But when he said "It looks like rain", they thought they would have a hurricane in the Wedding, that it was a prophecy. But it was actually because Pepa misunderstood, shook her nerves and tada "Hurricane". "It looks like rain" was actually an attempt to light her mood up 😭
@@L4nii_Urmum Only because the family already assumed the worst about what he said. Even if they took it as a prediction, he only said rain. Rain could be as light as a sprinkle and at worst mess up someone's hair. Pepa made it a whole hurricane because of her negative assumptions about what he predicts.
@@genera1013 i think in some context ‘it looks like rain’ means that the marriage won’t last so.. might be more than just literal rain. i might be wrong though
3:51 I agree his curls are so cute! Overall, I like how the characters have different curl patterns. I remember seeing somewhere where a mom posted her son saying that Antonio looks like him❤
I wouldnt say she's the "villian", her trauma is what blinded her from reality. After all she did see her husband get murdered infront of her while holding her babies. But her trauma is also not an excuse to what she did to the madrigal family. But i completely get abuela and her character. some of us had our trauma that made us the way we are.
I had a grandma born in WW II and she nearly ever spoke about her childhood and when she did it was like "funny occassions" like "my sister couldn't k!ll a hen for soup, so I did it...." "We got nearly cought smuggling alarm clocks, but they didn't look under our skirts in the sewers...." I didn't understand these stories as a child, but now looking back....... VIOLENCE of this kind can not be fully understood by generations that didn't encounter it. There are no villains in this story....
I find it hilarious that the "prophecies" people claimed Bruno made just sound like stuff he said off-handedly XD Like, "Hey, your fish looks kinda lopsided, is it dying?", "My dude, if you keep eating like that you're gonna get a gut", "Your hair line is kinda receding, your hair's gonna disappear at this rate". Sounds more like Bruno was socially awkward rather than making prophecies
I think that Mirabel is her Abuela's successor--neither of them have powers, but both were sources of the miracle. Abuela's miracle was wrought by grief, pain, tragedy and sacrifice; but she lost sight of what really mattered once she started seeing & judging her family solely on their gifts, rather than as people. Mirabel suffered as well, but the source of her miracle came from her reaching out to her family & truly understanding them as humans who felt restricted by their gifts. The house was rebuilt--as a family & community--with stronger foundations based on love & understanding, rather than magic, which was made possible by Mirabel. So she's the new Abuela, and both of Bruno's visions came true! I feel like Isabella resented Mirabel for being giftless--with those gifts come extra expectations & burdens, right? She probably assumed Mirabel had more freedom & felt less pressure, so she's actually secretly jealous. Anyway, I absolutely love your reaction, and I'm glad I stumbled upon it! Subbed
Except for that one really intense one that wouldn't move for the vision ritual. Lol. That one didn't seem to have any chill. Though I suppose it did stand there pretty stoicly through the whole thing
Mirabel is the candle. It was the candle that brought magic and miracle to the house the first time with Abuela .. And in absence of the candle, Mirabel, the human candle fixes it.The whole house is her room. And The reason Mirabel didn't get a gift is because she is the gift.
Riding bareback is apparently a lot more difficult than riding in the saddle, so even though he lost control over the horse we can assume Bruno was a pretty good horseman if he was able to ride it at all after being at least ten years out of practice
Kinda but not really. When the horse is doing what it's trained to do bareback is just less comfortable, but if it decides to buck or gallop without warning or whatever it's harder to stay on. I guess in the grand tradition of youtube comments I shoulda started that with a "As a person who's been dealing with those dustbags literally my whole life." statement first. 😆
Mi peculía favorita!!!! I am Colombian and I see so much of my own family here. My grandparents fled Colombia during La Violencía so the scene with Abuelo Pedro DESTROYS me everytime especially since my abuelo had already passed. Adore this film 💗🇨🇴
@@alisondiskin3889 And the most laid back. These giant guinea pigs have been spotted in the wild with flocks of birds, troupes of monkeys, and more just snuggling up with them - even, a few times, a jaguar or a caiman.
Fun fact:young Alma looks like similar to Isabella so when Bruno had the vision with Mirabel, Isebella hugging Mirabel can also be young Alma huging Mirabel
10:22 It's always interesting to watch people react to this song, sometimes they say 'he's deliberately giving some people bad visions and good visions to others', sometimes they say 'but that wasn't his fault, and anyway you asked him'.
no, it was in fact Isabella she had to hug. Remember Bruno said the vision is all out of order? His vision showed that the only way to fix casita and their family was first to break it down and then having to start all over again building it themselves without any gifts so their bond would be closer
Ay congrats on the 1k subscribers Rukiya❤️ Idk when that happen but I’m happy for you. Also the mortal combat edit was hilarious. Her family might of been the villain but that was still the hardest family photo I ever seen 😂
Thank you, Billy!🥰 It happened this past week since my Euphoria videos blew up.😳 It took me a long ass time to edit that fight scene lol but it turned out pretty awesome. And I agree that family photo is iconic✨😂
The animal you asked about when Bruno was setting up for his vision is called a capybera, they're giant adorable rodents that live in South America. They're anywhere from 40-50 inches long and weight anywhere from 60-170 pounds. They're really quite laid back and adorable.
I’ve heard someone say that what’s really sad about the first picture they took (when Antonio got his gift) was that the family didn’t invite Mirabel in the picture but they also didn’t tell her to not get in the picture. Mirabel just felt like she didn’t belong with the rest of them
Yeah, lots of people think that they pushed her away from the picture, but if you look at the scene closely, it is clear that she stayed away on purpose.
*About your royal family connection* : you are very much correct. Do mark this: the royal family, in the past, were people who constantly saw war and victories; the sovereign had a court, hands in government, people who literally kneed when they passed by. During this time, the royal family rarely felt the need to express that prefect family image of themselves, because their influence, victories, and hand in social culture was enough to establish their power. But as the world moved toward democracy, the royal family slowly lost their hands in government and influence, literally went from “ruling to simply reigning,” where they have left is glamour, respect, lavishness, and that image and guideline of perfection. There needed to be no cracks, or the family was doomed, gone. This heightened during WWI with the overthrow of their distant relatives in other countries (I.e. the fate of the Romanovs 😬). A great subject on this is the fate of Prince John of the United Kingdom, the youngest child of King George V and Queen Mary. He was autistic and suffered from epilepsy. His family, especially this mother the Queen, loved him dearly and constantly worried for him, but it’s no secret that they tried their best to hide and isolate him, and he would later pass away at the age of 13 in the care of a nanny. You may make that connection with Mirabel. She was the “different” one in being ordinary, and Prince John was the “different” one in being “imperfect” though the love was still there in both cases, and Prince John didn’t have such a good ending. But, indeed, the connection you made indeed goes deeper! And another wonderful reaction! 😊👌🏾💛
Personal theory: The candle and Casita are her abuelo Pedro’s spirit watching over them. As soon as he died, his spirit became the magic that protects and provides for them. The house crumbles because his heart breaks for what has happened to the family and he left Mirabel without a gift because he knew that’s what the family needed and that she would one day take her grandmother’s place as the keystone of the family. A gift would’ve prevented her from being neutral to all the rest of the family.
I think Mirabel already had a gift or was in fact given a gift and didn't need a door for it - compassion. Every time she sees that someone is scared or is under too much pressure she's there to comfort them immediately. It matches with what someone else said - that she got her door at the end of the movie, and it was the front door.
Why would the grandmother be the villain? the grandmother represents a displaced single mother, an emigrant who had to raise her family alone for having traumas that marked her and pushed her to protect her family, unfortunately she hurt some in the process, but in the end she understood that only she could keep her family together. The grandmother represents a displaced single mother, an emigrant who had to raise her family alone.
the way she covers 3 hr long DISNEY movies in 20 mins without even us feeling like she skipped anything, like the whole plot is still THERE, its AMAZING. im in awe
Okay, apart from BillyBinges, I have never laughed so hard. Those edits killed me. This is the only reaction I didn’t cry cause you killed me with the mortal combat edit with the Mirabel vs Abuela scene lol 😂 thanks for this! I loved it.
For movies like this, villain isn't really present, but what you do have is still an antagonist. Abuela is the antagonist to Mirabel, this doesn't automatically mean that the antagonist is evil, it just means that in the narrative the antagonist is standing in opposition to the protagonist.
@@Furiennaand you tackle generational trauma by getting through to a person. it's still them trying to get alma to be less demanding and overbearing. that's just how it is. she's the head of the house and the reason the household became so dysfunctional. mirabel managed to get closer to her siblings but alma is the one she really needed to say her speech to to get through her head that the family isnt going in a healthy direction
One of the reasons they never talked about Bruno, and why Abuela and his sisters reacted with shock, then dive hugged him when they saw him, was they thought he had killed himself.
@@RukiyaReacts I'm Venezuelan (right next to Colombia), and one of my great uncles is "the one people don't talk about" but I just heard he was an alcoholic who dropped out and then died young If he had committed suicide, then he would probably be straight up treated like Bruno
I loved this movie so much when I first watched it, but it also made me cry so many times. I identified so deeply with Mirabelle. And I love watching everyone’s reactions to this movie and seeing how they react to the different characters because it really shows who they connect with and they’re so many different kinds of characters, personalities, and roles that are played in the show that it’s almost like there’s someone for everyone to relate to.
What is good in this movie is the fact Mirabel is a " Miss everyone " so we can easily find us in her. Personally, I do because I have ASD and my little sisters don't really accept it, and also in Isabela because I'm the big sister and the eldest child is supposed to be an example for the siblings
I dunno if anyone's done this yet but anyway: abre los ojos: open your eyes mi vida: my life, an endearment casita: diminutive of casa, which means house. adding -ita makes it cute, like "our little house" (abuela's "brunito" at the end is on the same level) and the animal is called a capybara, they're friend shaped! also completely unimpressed with magic, apparently.
Mirabel took over the miracle of gifts because she wanted Antonio to be happy and not use his gift for the village but for himself (hence the stuffed tiger). Abuela wished for someone to help her with the village before Mirabel's door ceremony (no gift like Abuela). Bruno got the gift of seeing the future so nothing bad happened, Pepa got the gift to control the weather so no bad storms hit them, Julieta got the gift to heal all injurys, Camilo got the gift to turn into someone so if they needed one more person for something he could do it, Dolores got the gift to hear anything and everything happening in the village, Luisa got the gift to carry anything no matter the weight to help the village, and Isabela got the gift of plants to keep the village flurishing and colorful and lively so no one would leave. Just my observations and opinion
Things that I find funny: 4:33 "I need you. 🥺" and then "All right. I'm gonna go cry." by Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99. And then the same thing happen at 18:21 when Mirabel and Abuela are hugging the next scene goes to Jake Peralta saying "All right. I'm gonna go cry." There still so much more but I'm a bit lazy to do it so...
I feel identified with Isabela quite a lot. Like, when I was young my teacher told my parents: people respect your child because of the good grades. Imagine keeping that facet, people putting you on a pedestal, literally saying that you are at another level (even though you ask them not to say that), them thinking you are such a clever person that works so much to have good grades whereas you only have the capacity to learn by heart things quite fast... and the moment you fail to keep that facet ... Oh man the feeling... And your friends, who always say "We all are dumbasses except for her" ... You know, sometimes I would like to be included amongst the dumbasses... When people ask my why I don't like people saying that I am on another level I say that I appreciate the compliment but I am just as anyone else (in my head: PLEASE. STOP. PUTTING. PRESSURE. ON. ME).
When people put others on a pedestal it sets them up for failure, it outcasts them, even if they are saying it’s a “good thing” you are “special” and “better” it doesn’t feel good to not feel like you belong and are just part of the group. And when those people who were put on a pedestal eventually fail (because they are human) people judge them so much harsher because they “thought you were better” but they never asked to be seen as “better” they just wanted to belong. Being put on a pedestal is still marking someone as “other” and not worthy of being included and seen as innately human. 😢
My favorite thing about the movie is the songs and mirabelle and Isabella are my favorite characters cause I just love their hair because it's just that the hair their beautiful hair
"maybe this is how the Royal Family feels" plan: show the whole Royal Family Encanto so that can acknowledge their own generational trauma & family toxicity 😉
Funny how our perceptions about the characters change during this movie. When it started, we all get the "oh, they just excluded Mirabel from the family pic, they are all villains!" vibes... and then we understand the horrible pressure the magical powers puts on this family, with Dolores ("I heard her eye twitching... all night", almost everyone gets the "it must be horrible!" reaction), Luisa (Surface Pressure and her despair about losing her powers and her only way to validate herself - you can see Abuela ignored this fact, but if it happened when she was carrying something, like the donkeys, or a boulder, or the church, she would be instantly killed! It had a very dark conotation, we can understand Mirabel isn't the only one who was suffering from Abuela's cold shoulder) and Pepa (the scene just before We Don't Talk About Bruno is a prime example, when we can see how much she actually hates that cloud over her head wetting her all the time, and all the times Abuela says "Pepa, the cloud!", forcing her to conceal all her emotions - a lot like Elsa -, instead of actually talking to her daughter to see what's stressing her). So, we met Bruno! Bruno was such a plot twist, because we discover he was in that "villain" position exactly because he tried to protect Mirabel from Abuela's very possible wrath (both when he tried to destroy the vision and later tried to take the blame for her). Imagine what she would do to Mirabel if she saw that vision when Mirabel was five... What would she think? And more importantly, what would she do to Mirabel? Then, we can see the whole situation from Isabela's point of view, and we can understand the entire family is prisioner of Abuela's perfectionism, to the point of ruining Isabela's life by forcing her to marry someone she didn't like (and her cousin loved, creating a chasm between them forever), just because Abuela thought he was as perfect as she was forced to pose. And then, we saw Abuela's past, and everything makes sense (like the fact she and Pedro looked exacly like Isabela and Mariano. Yep, she was totally living Isabela's life) inluding what exactly the miracle was and why it broke with Mirabel. It doesn't really heal all wounds, but it's a start, not a complete story.
One thing I don't get is why people think the family excluded Mirabel from the picture, I see it as she excluded herself, they called everyone in for a picture and she didn't move, then she left and the whole situation with the house happened so it's not like they could take another one. I think she just didn't feel as much part of the family as she did later on. But that's just my take, the others definitely could have made more of an effort to make sure she appeared but they didn't flat out exclude her.
@@laurainathunderstorm Actually, this exclusion factor was something I used from the many reactions of this movie all over youtube. Basically, most people who watch it for the first time see it as rejection from the rest of the family. I personally believe you are right to a point: Mirabel excluded herself, but she was happy for Antonio UNTIL Abuela's speech about how the gift made him special, etc, etc... the same words that constantly trigger Mirabel's trauma, and she heard it too many times that day. So, it was Mirabel self-excluding herself AFTER Abuela's (and the family's) repeated rejection and negligence. Remembering that wasn't the first jab to Mirabel Abuela delivered that day. Mirabel spent the entire day being remembered by Abuela and Isabela why she was unable to help. So, for me it was more like it was the one strand that broke the camel's back.
@@laurainathunderstorm however, I totally agree with you in the fact Mirabel excludes herself from the family (probably BECAUSE of Abuela's constant reminders, but still), since on the other family's pic (the one in Mirabel's room), we can see clearly the way Luisa traps Mirabel in place to take it. So, it looks like she was trying to get away, but this time, Luisa noticed and acted. The movie actually shows a lot of "hidden" gestures from the rest of the family, trying to reach for Mirabel even against Abuela's influence: It was Luisa's in this case, but we can see it on Felix's decision to talk to her about Bruno (against everyone's, and most important, his wife's -who is his entire world and more- wish), on Julieta's and Augustin's challenge of Abuela's orders, on Pepa trying to enter the falling Casita to save Mirabel alongside her parents... They care about her, and try to compensate for Abuela's ignorance in some way. The thing is, Abuela is actually the only one Mirabel is seeking real validation from. That's why her parents' peep talk didn't work so much on her. It's sad it took Casita's falling and almost killing Mirabel (who was trying to save the candle -the only thing Abuela seemed to care for- ), and Mirabel running away, for Abuela to finally aknowledge and understand the crushing weigh she put on her and the rest of her family.
Dunno if anyone has ever answered, but the animal that shows up around 14:35 is a Capybara ( also known for being a giant hamster, and being really chill ). You welcome 🤝
Nice reation, thank you! I really appreciate that this movie doesn't have a cut and dry villian, but rather it was the fear and bottled-up emotions that was the true divider of family and home that was addressed so well.
Abuela would be the villain in a society devoted to individualism and selfishness. Abuela would be a member who needs to be respected and understood in a society to focuses on family, memory, and community. I think Mirabel understood her task, unlike most American Tiktokers.
Could you elaborate? Because I'm not sure what American tiktokers have to do with this movie. And I don’t think Abuela is the villain. She just had a problem with control and image because she was afraid of losing “the miracle”. But in the end, she saw the error of her way and realized that her family is a miracle.
@@RukiyaReacts I'm glad you agree. Right now there are tons of tiktokers and posts on Instagram saying Abuela is unredeemable, that she is the villain, etc. It's like they didn't get the message if the movie and I suspect it has to do with economic and cultural values from North America, since all of these accounts are usually English speaking.
@@jaimepe4765 Yep, I've seen talk about Abuela being the villain. Sadly, some of this is coming from people who were reminded of their own abusive families by this movie.....
@@jaimepe4765 This is a kinda selfish and mean-spirited point of view. You have to understand that individualism is not a bad thing. Sure, it can be taken to a dangerous extreme. But some people unfortunately feel obligated to take care of their abusive or narcissistic parents. What you’re touching on is a culture divide. You might believe that abandoning your abusive grandparents or parents is selfish, but others might disagree greatly. Respect is definitely a factor in these relationships, but phrases like “respect your elders” and “children are meant to be seen not heard” are used to undermine children and make them SUBSERVIENT to their authority figures. Tiktokers, who are probably young people who either undergo abuse under their parents or grandparents or have undergone that, probably don’t like the selfish qualities of Abuela and maybe resent the ending of the film. You have to understand that times are changing. It was customary for children and teens to blindly obey their parents, follow toxic social and gender norms, and take their abuse for the sake of being loyal in the past, but times are slightly different now. Remember, blood is not really thicker than water. You sound a bit like a boomer with the whole “tiktokers and their individualism blah blah blah” rhetoric, and I can assume that you either parent like Abuela or are in family with a member like her. Just because she faced a severely traumatic event doesn’t excuse her actions. And just because she suffers from that kind of trauma doesn’t make her exempt from criticism, no matter if it’s harsh or understanding. Also, don’t you think that some people, especially young people, are tired of seeing movies where the responsibility of taking care of a broken family falls on one of the children? Children and teens aren’t meant to be the saviors of their toxic families. Instead, they’re meant to blossom into maturity and have a sense of pride that will assist them in this cruel world. I honestly think having everything tied neatly by the end really does a disservice to those who constantly struggle with having to live with and take care of Abuelas in their family. It’s like saying “you’re suffering now, but just keep going because she or he’s your parent, and you’re indebted to them”. By the way, for people to “project” onto Abuela, they would have to see something in her character that they already experienced from a family member of theirs.
You can be for your family without excluding your own family for being the "black sheep" Abuela was so hard on Mirabel for not having a gift when SHE HERSELF DIDN'T HAVE A GIFT and she basically had her family shun her son because she was scared off losing her home instead of finding a way to solve the problem like Mirabel. She was villian but she was passing toxicity down to her family and deserved to be called out on that SO SHE COULD CHANGE this we have to forgive our elders because when they won't even acknowledge their flaws just because they are our elders just creates more toxic people.
6:49 The food that you are taking about is called “Arepas”. They’re basically made from corn and cheese **I think** and they’re **soo** good! And a Mexican food btw!
I feel like Abuela is the antagonist but not the villain. Because while she is almost always at odds with Mirabel, she’s not trying to harm her. She’s trying to do the thing that Mirabel is doing which is save the family and keep everything together it’s just she’s doing it in a dysfunctional way. The villain is the colonialism and the intergenerational trauma and how Elders in families of colour never speak about things that have happened to them in the past and instead fester and then trickle down, that’s the villain. Abuela was just more on opposing sides with Mirabel on how to go about things but with the same goal in mind: keeping their family together Also I do think that Isabela/Mirabel hug was important because it set off the final chain of events that led to Casita breaking. Mirabel helping Isabela let go and be who she really is led to Abuela losing her mind when Isabela wasn’t “perfect“ which led to them fighting which led to Casita breaking which led to Mirabel going to the river where Abuela told her story where Mirabel and Abuela realised that there is more to the other and in the end helped the family get closer so it was a necessary event.
@@Furienna I know it’s not and i’m not saying she had to be defeated… She and the protagonist overcame their obstacle by being honest with each other. She was just somebody who was against our main character not actively trying to harm her, but she was the antagonist… The generational trauma was the villain, and that’s what I meant in my original post.
She was supposed to hug both of them Bruno said that the vision was out of order so she was supposed to hug Isabella first and then go where the butterfly was
After a long day at school very tired instead of doing the dishes I hope on my bed and watch RUKIYAS BEST VIDS THAT MAKE ME RELAX! I love your content rukiya❤❤❤!
What I noticed what was completely upsetting is that as soon as mirabel was missing, they instantly looked for her, but when Bruno left, no one looked for him. 😢
Easy to miss moment, but when Dolores says "He wants five babies." , Abuela plucks the one flower that doesn't match from Isabella's hair, showing the high standards for perfection she puts on her shoulders.
19:52 From 'The Lucy Show': 'Lucy and Arthur Godfrey' Scene from the community play that's supposed to be about the founding of the home town though it has yet to be mentioned in the plot, 'Lucibelle' meets 'the poor but honest piano player: Poor but Honest Piano Player: "I love you. Let's get married!" Lucibelle: "I don't even know you!" Poor but Honest Piano Player: "Can you think of a better way to get acquainted?" Lucibelle: "Well no I can't!" Side note: I love Mirabel and Isabella playing matchmaker
@@RukiyaReacts Bruno said 'the man of my dreams would be just out of reach, betrothed to another', but he didn't confirm the man of her dreams would be married to another
Mirabel is my favorite!. Lin-Manuel Miranda KILLED it with this soundtrack!!!!!!!!!. One of my favorite films from Disney. Surface Pressure and Waiting on a Miracle are my favorite songs.
Hey Everyone!❤️ I hope you all enjoyed watching Disney's Encanto with me! Comment which character is your favourite. (Mine is Luisa, she’s iconic✨)
gurl your editing has me CRYING LMAO
NO ONE is the villain. I love how all the characters are flawed. And the conflict between them is the only real "villain". It's easier to be on Mirabel's side because we are watching from her POV, and the run time is mostly her. So, it's easy to villainize everyone else and flatten their characters into one note.
Luisa is my favourite character too
probably Bruno cause Hes such a sweetheart
I like Luisa too because of her sweet side hiding behind her strong appearance
I always found the scene of Mirabel's dad finding the vision really loving and heartfelt. His first instinct was to hide the vision. Not out of embarrassment but out of love for his daughter. His motives were to protect his daughter from the rest of the family.
And it seems he wasn't going to hide it forever, he said "until the Guzman's leave, you did not-" Yada Yada Yada, so he was gonna confront the issue but not until after everything was settled down as everyone was tense about the dinner
@@hazbinotakusimp2182 yeah, it’s all about timing! Communication and honesty is good but it’s useless if you don’t present it and frame it in the right way and at the right time ❤
@@luckybug479 precisely 😁
what his gift tho?
@@TRDRODDY the dads can’t get gifts because the are not the son’s of alma(ablua/grandma )
I just now realized that Mirabel and Casita are so close because Casita CANT go to the magic rooms, but she CAN go into the nursery, where Mirabel has been longer than anyone else in the house. Meaning Casita was probably the one cheering her up while having turmoil over being giftless and bonding with her. This movie has so many little details
Wow, I didn't realize that! 😮 this movie is for sure the type you have to watch multiple times to pick up on hidden meanings✨
casita can go into the rooms, it can't affect Bruno's specifically for the same reason that his door stopped glowing.
Mirabel has been in others rooms before but was still surprised that casita couldn't help inside Bruno's.
I thought it couldn’t enter his room because he’d been cut off from the family so his room was no longer part of the house. Mirabel even sounds surprised that casita can’t enter and I don’t know why she’d sound surprised if it couldn’t enter anyones room.
Nah, Casita can work in everyone else’s rooms. It just can’t help in Bruno’s because it’s basically a “dead spot” just like the space in the walls is. After he came back it’s likely the magic will start working in his room again.
Can we please not gender the Casita it's a house I don't think anywhere hits that the house is a girl and by whatever logic you stand by it's ok for me to gender the Casita a guy but I don't I say it or the house can please not gender non human or animals that can't speak
Maybe the real villain was the generational tramua we made along the way 🤔
No, but seriously. Abuela was definitely the unintentional antagonist of the story. While trying to uphold her family to make sure they were worthy of the gifts, she neglected the PEOPLE in her family. Abuela being so focused on the miracle slowly destroyed her actual miracles; her children and grandchildren.
Loved your reaction!
That should be a motto of the Madrigal family and many others...
Yes!💯 I had many arguments with my mom and grandma growing up. They would always compare me to how they were when they were my age, instead of allowing me to be my own person. Constantly holding me to a high expectation, I felt like I would never be good enough for them. This is a huge issue for many families, especially ones with immigrant parents. I’m so glad Disney did a movie about this.
Yes, exactly. I have been looking for someone with this realization.
Although Abuela is the antagonist, she is not a true villain. It was never in her intentions to hurt anyone, but the pressure that she put on the family is ultimately causing the family to collapse on itself. And what many people miss is that not only is it that this pressure that causes Bruno to leave and is most seen put on Mirabel, but it is also what is the actual cause of the magic and Casita literally collapsing in on itself.
The real villain was THE COLONISERS
And Mirabel was right. The miracle is dying because of Alma Madrigal. She could never take responsibility.
I think Abuela's obsession with perfection and service comes from a need to "earn" the miracle like she says in the opening song. I'm guessing she has a subconscious feeling that something must be bad about her so she deserved to lose her husband, a lot of people feel irrational guilt like that.
Abuela probably has survivor guilt. She feels like she needs to live up to being saved and being given the miracle and the demanding townspeople only reinforce it since they come to the Madrigals to fix everything all the time.
Yeah, and she turned into the leader of the survivors to find their new home after pedro died and of course the miracle happening so she didnt had much time to mourn his death and prolly was pressured to keep up and help the townsfolk, due to her trauma, she had to have a perfect family if she and the townsfolk was given a miracle to have their new life and thought she had to put a facade and of course like you said she thought serving the community/townsfolk is to keep the miracle alive so she neglected the families feelings and built generational trauma, the house breaking after mirabel and abuelas fight is her realizing that their family is broken and realized the miracle was given because of pedros sacrifice and was given to have abuela had a life where she can live with her loved ones without any of you know what happened to her old village, she confronted mirabel and blamed what everything happened to herself and not mirabel when mirabel said it was her fault, she then told her mistake and never thought of why they were actually given the miracle, also someone said that the black scarf thingy is her way to represent she is still mourning and hasnt moved on, on what happened, and in the end of the movie she finally let go of the thing and has moved on
Wow
Love her or hate her, she is not the worst animated parent out there. That crown belongs to endeavor from my hero academia
I read from someone of Colombia that the line: It looks like rain means the couple will have a bad marriage, maybe that’s why Pepa got upset (not really, she was nervous and Bruno tried to cheer her up with don’t matter what weather is, she should be happy but she took it as a prophecy, sooo a lot of misunderstandings).
I've heard that before! It just sucks that people misunderstanding Bruno turned into him getting shunned away 😭
Even then, some watching thought Bruno WAS making a prediction, just one that would warn the family about something that could ruin the day.
At least we know that's not true, since Felix is a great husband and even called their "ruined wedding" a 'glorious day'.
That superstition makes it more touching that Felix still considered the wedding to be 'a joyous day' inspire of the hurricane
Dolores' lines in the song clearly gave away that bruno still lives in the house. Everybody talks about him in past tense except for her.
Yep and he's literally in the background of her verse. He's downstairs walking towards the stairs then he's upstairs dancing
@@J1ntu And before anyone pipes up that it could have been Camilo, the producers have confirmed it IS the REAL Bruno in those shots.
@@Valandar2 thank you! I've had people argue with me about that
@@Valandar2 i think they confirmed many things in twitter
Like the ages(abuela is 75, triplets are 50 julieta is the oldest, pepa being the middle and bruno the youngest, felix is a little older, 51, while agustin is 49, younger than the triplets, due to his accident-prone, this is why julieta and agustin became a couple, both isabella and dolores being 21, isabella is the oldest of the grandchildrens, this is why she is needed to be perfect, while dolores is like a either days or months younger, and this shows that she is in the shadows of isabella because abuela likes isabella more, luisa is 19, camilo and mirabel is 15, mirabel is days or months younger because she was the last one to get a gift before antonio, and antonio is 5)
@@LorielSaysHi Yeppers, they did. Much of it would likely come out in some kind of "Art of Encanto" book, or a potential animated Disney+ TV show or something, but they did take time to actually make these statements.
The reason Isabela is Abuela's favorite is that, in addition to being the firstborn grandchild of the Madrigals, Isabela is also the family member who most strikingly resembles her when she was younger. Also, the man that Isabela was betrothed to has a striking resemblance to Abuela's late husband. Basically, Abuela is trying to recreate her past using Isabela as a physical template for herself
That’s actually true
did you know that camillos sister is the villan (im only 7 ok dont juge my spelling)😅😅
@@luareneleano7818um how do you know
@@luareneleano7818no she isn’t?
This video is old, but something that very little people comment about: Abuela was like, 21 or something when Pedro died. And if you pay atention to the villagers in "Dos Oruguitas", immediatly after Pedro dies, even before Abuela gets up from the ground, they are already looking at her for leadership. The lady went from a recently married, mom of three newborns young lady to grieving single mom, widow AND leader of a entry community in twenty minutes or less... That also can't have impacted well on her actitude towards the family/the miracle in general.
Adding that she talked about Pedro being "lost" in the beginning and even at the end she can't talk about what happened at the river, Mirabel needs to say the words and watch it for herself to understand the "grieve" (for not having a better word) her abuelita had gone through....
In addition, she never realised that the village would return the favour. She feared showing any family weakness and outright panicked at the thought that anyone could notice there were issues with the magic. When the villagers weren't angry at the family that they had lost their magic and even volunteered to help them rebuild the house, she was outright shocked. That was the moment that finished shattering her worldview and allowed the family's new foundation to stand strong.
Actually yes.. She was supposed to mainly hug Abuela. The vision was of abuela but Bruno said his vision is out of order.
So actually the order of the vision is:
The house breaking, Mirabel coming, Isabella happens, House breaks even more, The butterfly and then the hug
Ohhh okay, that makes more sense! Thank you💕
@@RukiyaReacts :D yw 💜
@@RukiyaReacts I think the hug with Isabella was extremely important though. It was the start of the repair. The house collapsed after but that was necessary for the fix. As was the talk with Abuella which was the butterfly part of the vision. The house without the cracks was most likely the rebuilt house. Each part of the vision had a purpose
@@katonnor yeah this- it was the first time the house visibly repaired itself, and mirabel realizing that led her to act the way she did going forward
I get where your coming from, and your right. But, I think your also missing the significance of Mirabel and Isabella. The magic wasn't going away because Abuela was putting too much pressure on everyone, it was breaking because that pressure was making the family dysfunctional. Isabella and Mirabel's tendency to not get along was one of the largest manifestations of this, due to neither of them being able to show their true selves and appreciate each other for who they are. When Isabella and Mirabel finally understood each other and were getting along, it was almost like the largest step in healing their family, hence the cracks going away.
This being said, the issue with Abuela didn't really exist until Abuela started to belt her frustration to Mirabel, in which the dysfunctionality of the family finally reached it's tipping point when it was attacked at its source.
This movie don't need villains. Encanto is about family secrets and dysfunctional family relationships. Looking for the villain is like looking for someone to blame within the family and the problems are not really addressed 100%.
Abuela isn’t a villain but she is the main antagonist to Mirabel, she is basically the anti hero trope where they make poor choices but have good intentions at heart.
Do you know that in "We don't talk about Bruno", Pepa said "Bruno walks in with a mischievous grin" and it showed Bruno walking in with a hood.
Bruno attended the Wedding to support his sister by putting a hood. Since he's socially awkward, wearing a hood gives him confidence. But when he said "It looks like rain", they thought they would have a hurricane in the Wedding, that it was a prophecy.
But it was actually because Pepa misunderstood, shook her nerves and tada "Hurricane". "It looks like rain" was actually an attempt to light her mood up 😭
I hate that a misunderstanding turned into him getting shunned by the family 😭
Bruno walking in during that part of the song makes me wanna meme the image.....😆
@@RukiyaReacts tbh it’s his fault bc he said that not knowing anything might happen
@@L4nii_Urmum Only because the family already assumed the worst about what he said. Even if they took it as a prediction, he only said rain. Rain could be as light as a sprinkle and at worst mess up someone's hair. Pepa made it a whole hurricane because of her negative assumptions about what he predicts.
@@genera1013 i think in some context ‘it looks like rain’ means that the marriage won’t last so.. might be more than just literal rain.
i might be wrong though
3:51 I agree his curls are so cute! Overall, I like how the characters have different curl patterns. I remember seeing somewhere where a mom posted her son saying that Antonio looks like him❤
I wouldnt say she's the "villian", her trauma is what blinded her from reality. After all she did see her husband get murdered infront of her while holding her babies. But her trauma is also not an excuse to what she did to the madrigal family. But i completely get abuela and her character. some of us had our trauma that made us the way we are.
Agree 💯
I had a grandma born in WW II and she nearly ever spoke about her childhood and when she did it was like "funny occassions" like "my sister couldn't k!ll a hen for soup, so I did it...." "We got nearly cought smuggling alarm clocks, but they didn't look under our skirts in the sewers...." I didn't understand these stories as a child, but now looking back.......
VIOLENCE of this kind can not be fully understood by generations that didn't encounter it.
There are no villains in this story....
one of my favorite parts of encanto is how it’s the first movie i’ve seen that truly shows just how diverse the latine community is
That “I got so much love inside” line could be used a couple different ways actually 🤔 I think I have my new droppin a hint line 😂
Lol please don’t use that. 😭 I don’t know why but for some reason, it just sounds dirty to me😂
HII BILLY
Lmaooo
@@pepamadrigal5979 hi pepa!
BILLY, BEHAVE YOURSELF 💀
I just love this movie, I also love the hair texture and different skintones.
Same! The representation is top tier✨💕
I love the Capybara being an unintentional comedy relief in the background.
This reaction was hilarious, your edits were amazing!
Thank you!🥰
I find it hilarious that the "prophecies" people claimed Bruno made just sound like stuff he said off-handedly XD Like, "Hey, your fish looks kinda lopsided, is it dying?", "My dude, if you keep eating like that you're gonna get a gut", "Your hair line is kinda receding, your hair's gonna disappear at this rate". Sounds more like Bruno was socially awkward rather than making prophecies
I think that Mirabel is her Abuela's successor--neither of them have powers, but both were sources of the miracle. Abuela's miracle was wrought by grief, pain, tragedy and sacrifice; but she lost sight of what really mattered once she started seeing & judging her family solely on their gifts, rather than as people. Mirabel suffered as well, but the source of her miracle came from her reaching out to her family & truly understanding them as humans who felt restricted by their gifts. The house was rebuilt--as a family & community--with stronger foundations based on love & understanding, rather than magic, which was made possible by Mirabel. So she's the new Abuela, and both of Bruno's visions came true!
I feel like Isabella resented Mirabel for being giftless--with those gifts come extra expectations & burdens, right? She probably assumed Mirabel had more freedom & felt less pressure, so she's actually secretly jealous.
Anyway, I absolutely love your reaction, and I'm glad I stumbled upon it! Subbed
The "thing" is a capybara, largest rodent. They are pure chill.
Except for that one really intense one that wouldn't move for the vision ritual. Lol. That one didn't seem to have any chill. Though I suppose it did stand there pretty stoicly through the whole thing
Mirabel is the candle. It was the candle that brought magic and miracle to the house the first time with Abuela .. And in absence of the candle, Mirabel, the human candle fixes it.The whole house is her room. And The reason Mirabel didn't get a gift is because she is the gift.
Awwe, that's awesome! So her gift is honestly the most important one, she's what keeps everything together✨
@@RukiyaReacts yep! 💜✨
And I heard a theory, she might be the next matriarch of the madrigals like abuela
@@kidonyoutubeyt mhm!
I heard that she wiped all the magic off of her hands, before touching the door so
Riding bareback is apparently a lot more difficult than riding in the saddle, so even though he lost control over the horse we can assume Bruno was a pretty good horseman if he was able to ride it at all after being at least ten years out of practice
Oh cool! Thank you for the info🥰
Ah, my baby is a man of many skills.
Kinda but not really. When the horse is doing what it's trained to do bareback is just less comfortable, but if it decides to buck or gallop without warning or whatever it's harder to stay on. I guess in the grand tradition of youtube comments I shoulda started that with a "As a person who's been dealing with those dustbags literally my whole life." statement first. 😆
Mi peculía favorita!!!! I am Colombian and I see so much of my own family here. My grandparents fled Colombia during La Violencía so the scene with Abuelo Pedro DESTROYS me everytime especially since my abuelo had already passed.
Adore this film 💗🇨🇴
14:39 that's is a capybara 🦫
(that's a real animal btw)
That thing is a capybara, lol. I think they're really cute, but yeah, they're a little shocking if you're not familiar.
thank you! I couldn't get over its nonchalant facial expression 😆
Their the largest member of the rodent family.
@@alisondiskin3889 And the most laid back. These giant guinea pigs have been spotted in the wild with flocks of birds, troupes of monkeys, and more just snuggling up with them - even, a few times, a jaguar or a caiman.
They give the least fucks in the entire animal kingdom.
Fun fact:young Alma looks like similar to Isabella so when Bruno had the vision with Mirabel, Isebella hugging Mirabel can also be young Alma huging Mirabel
10:22 It's always interesting to watch people react to this song, sometimes they say 'he's deliberately giving some people bad visions and good visions to others', sometimes they say 'but that wasn't his fault, and anyway you asked him'.
no, it was in fact Isabella she had to hug. Remember Bruno said the vision is all out of order? His vision showed that the only way to fix casita and their family was first to break it down and then having to start all over again building it themselves without any gifts so their bond would be closer
Ay congrats on the 1k subscribers Rukiya❤️
Idk when that happen but I’m happy for you.
Also the mortal combat edit was hilarious.
Her family might of been the villain but that was still the hardest family photo I ever seen 😂
Thank you, Billy!🥰 It happened this past week since my Euphoria videos blew up.😳
It took me a long ass time to edit that fight scene lol but it turned out pretty awesome. And I agree that family photo is iconic✨😂
I love both of you guys and rukiya I loved this video ❤️❤️
The animal you asked about when Bruno was setting up for his vision is called a capybera, they're giant adorable rodents that live in South America. They're anywhere from 40-50 inches long and weight anywhere from 60-170 pounds. They're really quite laid back and adorable.
I’ve heard someone say that what’s really sad about the first picture they took (when Antonio got his gift) was that the family didn’t invite Mirabel in the picture but they also didn’t tell her to not get in the picture. Mirabel just felt like she didn’t belong with the rest of them
Yeah, lots of people think that they pushed her away from the picture, but if you look at the scene closely, it is clear that she stayed away on purpose.
The Royal Family do have a lot of pressure. William and Harry cried at their mom's funeral and some newspapers complained because the UK media suck.
Wow, that’s so sad they can’t even grieve their mother in peace 😔
@@RukiyaReacts
Yeah, that's awful.
It's a tragic DEATH, crying is expected!!
*About your royal family connection* : you are very much correct. Do mark this: the royal family, in the past, were people who constantly saw war and victories; the sovereign had a court, hands in government, people who literally kneed when they passed by. During this time, the royal family rarely felt the need to express that prefect family image of themselves, because their influence, victories, and hand in social culture was enough to establish their power. But as the world moved toward democracy, the royal family slowly lost their hands in government and influence, literally went from “ruling to simply reigning,” where they have left is glamour, respect, lavishness, and that image and guideline of perfection. There needed to be no cracks, or the family was doomed, gone. This heightened during WWI with the overthrow of their distant relatives in other countries (I.e. the fate of the Romanovs 😬). A great subject on this is the fate of Prince John of the United Kingdom, the youngest child of King George V and Queen Mary. He was autistic and suffered from epilepsy. His family, especially this mother the Queen, loved him dearly and constantly worried for him, but it’s no secret that they tried their best to hide and isolate him, and he would later pass away at the age of 13 in the care of a nanny. You may make that connection with Mirabel. She was the “different” one in being ordinary, and Prince John was the “different” one in being “imperfect” though the love was still there in both cases, and Prince John didn’t have such a good ending. But, indeed, the connection you made indeed goes deeper! And another wonderful reaction! 😊👌🏾💛
yeah Diana is Bruno and Meghan is Mirabel 😭
Personal theory:
The candle and Casita are her abuelo Pedro’s spirit watching over them. As soon as he died, his spirit became the magic that protects and provides for them. The house crumbles because his heart breaks for what has happened to the family and he left Mirabel without a gift because he knew that’s what the family needed and that she would one day take her grandmother’s place as the keystone of the family. A gift would’ve prevented her from being neutral to all the rest of the family.
The editing in this is top-tier funny lmao the Abuela and Mirabel fight scene though plss 😭
Thank you! That scene was intense so a streetfighter edit seemed appropriate 😆
Ha ha ha the editing
I think Mirabel already had a gift or was in fact given a gift and didn't need a door for it - compassion. Every time she sees that someone is scared or is under too much pressure she's there to comfort them immediately.
It matches with what someone else said - that she got her door at the end of the movie, and it was the front door.
Exactly 😢😮
Why would the grandmother be the villain? the grandmother represents a displaced single mother, an emigrant who had to raise her family alone for having traumas that marked her and pushed her to protect her family, unfortunately she hurt some in the process, but in the end she understood that only she could keep her family together. The grandmother represents a displaced single mother, an emigrant who had to raise her family alone.
the way she covers 3 hr long DISNEY movies in 20 mins without even us feeling like she skipped anything, like the whole plot is still THERE, its AMAZING. im in awe
"What is that? 💁♂️not a house🙅♂️"
Okay, apart from BillyBinges, I have never laughed so hard. Those edits killed me. This is the only reaction I didn’t cry cause you killed me with the mortal combat edit with the Mirabel vs Abuela scene lol 😂 thanks for this! I loved it.
Wow, thank you so much!🥰 I love Billy’s videos too so its an honour that you like my video as much as his🥺💗
For movies like this, villain isn't really present, but what you do have is still an antagonist. Abuela is the antagonist to Mirabel, this doesn't automatically mean that the antagonist is evil, it just means that in the narrative the antagonist is standing in opposition to the protagonist.
No, this story is not about fighting a person but about handling a generational trauma.
@@Furiennaand you tackle generational trauma by getting through to a person. it's still them trying to get alma to be less demanding and overbearing. that's just how it is. she's the head of the house and the reason the household became so dysfunctional. mirabel managed to get closer to her siblings but alma is the one she really needed to say her speech to to get through her head that the family isnt going in a healthy direction
I love how you fast forward all the ranty bits, it actually works really well. Great reaction!
Thank you!✨
Luisa’s song is honestly so heartbreaking, I cried whilst listening to it 🥲🥲
One of the reasons they never talked about Bruno, and why Abuela and his sisters reacted with shock, then dive hugged him when they saw him, was they thought he had killed himself.
Really?!
@@RukiyaReacts It has yet to be confirmed, but it fits the culture. It also explains why Abuella Alma claims "Bruno did not care about this family".
@@RukiyaReacts I mean, his room was a high tower with a long drop. And lots of sand for a body to vanish into
@@RukiyaReacts I'm Venezuelan (right next to Colombia), and one of my great uncles is "the one people don't talk about" but I just heard he was an alcoholic who dropped out and then died young
If he had committed suicide, then he would probably be straight up treated like Bruno
I think this was implied in the original story for this movie too. They thought he died
I loved this movie so much when I first watched it, but it also made me cry so many times. I identified so deeply with Mirabelle. And I love watching everyone’s reactions to this movie and seeing how they react to the different characters because it really shows who they connect with and they’re so many different kinds of characters, personalities, and roles that are played in the show that it’s almost like there’s someone for everyone to relate to.
The part of we don’t talk about Bruno where everyone is singing over each other is called a Madrigal.
No way! 🤯
What is good in this movie is the fact Mirabel is a " Miss everyone " so we can easily find us in her.
Personally, I do because I have ASD and my little sisters don't really accept it, and also in Isabela because I'm the big sister and the eldest child is supposed to be an example for the siblings
I dunno if anyone's done this yet but anyway:
abre los ojos: open your eyes
mi vida: my life, an endearment
casita: diminutive of casa, which means house. adding -ita makes it cute, like "our little house" (abuela's "brunito" at the end is on the same level)
and the animal is called a capybara, they're friend shaped! also completely unimpressed with magic, apparently.
Ouuu thank you so much!!❤️
Mirabel took over the miracle of gifts because she wanted Antonio to be happy and not use his gift for the village but for himself (hence the stuffed tiger). Abuela wished for someone to help her with the village before Mirabel's door ceremony (no gift like Abuela). Bruno got the gift of seeing the future so nothing bad happened, Pepa got the gift to control the weather so no bad storms hit them, Julieta got the gift to heal all injurys, Camilo got the gift to turn into someone so if they needed one more person for something he could do it, Dolores got the gift to hear anything and everything happening in the village, Luisa got the gift to carry anything no matter the weight to help the village, and Isabela got the gift of plants to keep the village flurishing and colorful and lively so no one would leave. Just my observations and opinion
I believe this movie takes place during the Thousand Day War, which drove many Columbian villagers from their homes.
Oh wow! I wish wars didn't exist, it's such unnecessary violence😔
*Colombian
Things that I find funny:
4:33 "I need you. 🥺" and then
"All right. I'm gonna go cry." by Jake Peralta from Brooklyn 99.
And then the same thing happen at 18:21 when Mirabel and Abuela are hugging the next scene goes to Jake Peralta saying "All right. I'm gonna go cry."
There still so much more but I'm a bit lazy to do it so...
i like how you put the like a fighting game to a roast and abuela roasted her mother
14:35 Her: “what the heck is that thing?”
Me: “CAPYBARA-“
I feel identified with Isabela quite a lot. Like, when I was young my teacher told my parents: people respect your child because of the good grades. Imagine keeping that facet, people putting you on a pedestal, literally saying that you are at another level (even though you ask them not to say that), them thinking you are such a clever person that works so much to have good grades whereas you only have the capacity to learn by heart things quite fast... and the moment you fail to keep that facet ... Oh man the feeling... And your friends, who always say "We all are dumbasses except for her" ... You know, sometimes I would like to be included amongst the dumbasses...
When people ask my why I don't like people saying that I am on another level I say that I appreciate the compliment but I am just as anyone else (in my head: PLEASE. STOP. PUTTING. PRESSURE. ON. ME).
When people put others on a pedestal it sets them up for failure, it outcasts them, even if they are saying it’s a “good thing” you are “special” and “better” it doesn’t feel good to not feel like you belong and are just part of the group. And when those people who were put on a pedestal eventually fail (because they are human) people judge them so much harsher because they “thought you were better” but they never asked to be seen as “better” they just wanted to belong. Being put on a pedestal is still marking someone as “other” and not worthy of being included and seen as innately human. 😢
I feel like this version of events relates more to Luisa but I see where your coming from I guess 😢😢😮
8:06 "you better sing". No gurl YOU better sing! I LOVE your voice 🔥🔥🔥🔥
15:35
*Plop*🌵
"Oh!"👁️👄👁️
*Cuts to the musical* 💃✨💃✨
Edit: I love how all the comments are so serious and then there is ✨mine✨
Welcome off the family madrigal I love that song :)
Y’all, 2:45 & 3:00 had me dying!
& the commentary with Isabella “What?! WTF?!“ 😂🤣
whats really cool is that the overlapping of the vocals is called a Madrigal.
I agree!
This is the most entertaining reaction that I've seen, the edits and commentaries are so perfect and funny😩❤️
Awe thank you so much!!❤️
My favorite thing about the movie is the songs and mirabelle and Isabella are my favorite characters cause I just love their hair because it's just that the hair their beautiful hair
"maybe this is how the Royal Family feels" plan: show the whole Royal Family Encanto so that can acknowledge their own generational trauma & family toxicity 😉
Yes!! Because the whole time I was watching I keep thinking to myself that Prince Harry is Bruno and Queen Elizabeth is Abuela.
Funny how our perceptions about the characters change during this movie.
When it started, we all get the "oh, they just excluded Mirabel from the family pic, they are all villains!" vibes... and then we understand the horrible pressure the magical powers puts on this family, with Dolores ("I heard her eye twitching... all night", almost everyone gets the "it must be horrible!" reaction), Luisa (Surface Pressure and her despair about losing her powers and her only way to validate herself - you can see Abuela ignored this fact, but if it happened when she was carrying something, like the donkeys, or a boulder, or the church, she would be instantly killed! It had a very dark conotation, we can understand Mirabel isn't the only one who was suffering from Abuela's cold shoulder) and Pepa (the scene just before We Don't Talk About Bruno is a prime example, when we can see how much she actually hates that cloud over her head wetting her all the time, and all the times Abuela says "Pepa, the cloud!", forcing her to conceal all her emotions - a lot like Elsa -, instead of actually talking to her daughter to see what's stressing her).
So, we met Bruno! Bruno was such a plot twist, because we discover he was in that "villain" position exactly because he tried to protect Mirabel from Abuela's very possible wrath (both when he tried to destroy the vision and later tried to take the blame for her). Imagine what she would do to Mirabel if she saw that vision when Mirabel was five... What would she think? And more importantly, what would she do to Mirabel?
Then, we can see the whole situation from Isabela's point of view, and we can understand the entire family is prisioner of Abuela's perfectionism, to the point of ruining Isabela's life by forcing her to marry someone she didn't like (and her cousin loved, creating a chasm between them forever), just because Abuela thought he was as perfect as she was forced to pose.
And then, we saw Abuela's past, and everything makes sense (like the fact she and Pedro looked exacly like Isabela and Mariano. Yep, she was totally living Isabela's life) inluding what exactly the miracle was and why it broke with Mirabel. It doesn't really heal all wounds, but it's a start, not a complete story.
One thing I don't get is why people think the family excluded Mirabel from the picture, I see it as she excluded herself, they called everyone in for a picture and she didn't move, then she left and the whole situation with the house happened so it's not like they could take another one. I think she just didn't feel as much part of the family as she did later on. But that's just my take, the others definitely could have made more of an effort to make sure she appeared but they didn't flat out exclude her.
@@laurainathunderstorm Actually, this exclusion factor was something I used from the many reactions of this movie all over youtube. Basically, most people who watch it for the first time see it as rejection from the rest of the family.
I personally believe you are right to a point: Mirabel excluded herself, but she was happy for Antonio UNTIL Abuela's speech about how the gift made him special, etc, etc... the same words that constantly trigger Mirabel's trauma, and she heard it too many times that day. So, it was Mirabel self-excluding herself AFTER Abuela's (and the family's) repeated rejection and negligence. Remembering that wasn't the first jab to Mirabel Abuela delivered that day. Mirabel spent the entire day being remembered by Abuela and Isabela why she was unable to help. So, for me it was more like it was the one strand that broke the camel's back.
@@AnaReginaNica agreed, that specific date was just full of reminders, and even from outside the family, but ofc Abuela's must have hurt the most
@@laurainathunderstorm however, I totally agree with you in the fact Mirabel excludes herself from the family (probably BECAUSE of Abuela's constant reminders, but still), since on the other family's pic (the one in Mirabel's room), we can see clearly the way Luisa traps Mirabel in place to take it. So, it looks like she was trying to get away, but this time, Luisa noticed and acted.
The movie actually shows a lot of "hidden" gestures from the rest of the family, trying to reach for Mirabel even against Abuela's influence: It was Luisa's in this case, but we can see it on Felix's decision to talk to her about Bruno (against everyone's, and most important, his wife's -who is his entire world and more- wish), on Julieta's and Augustin's challenge of Abuela's orders, on Pepa trying to enter the falling Casita to save Mirabel alongside her parents... They care about her, and try to compensate for Abuela's ignorance in some way. The thing is, Abuela is actually the only one Mirabel is seeking real validation from. That's why her parents' peep talk didn't work so much on her.
It's sad it took Casita's falling and almost killing Mirabel (who was trying to save the candle -the only thing Abuela seemed to care for- ), and Mirabel running away, for Abuela to finally aknowledge and understand the crushing weigh she put on her and the rest of her family.
Dunno if anyone has ever answered, but the animal that shows up around 14:35 is a Capybara ( also known for being a giant hamster, and being really chill ).
You welcome 🤝
Nice reation, thank you! I really appreciate that this movie doesn't have a cut and dry villian, but rather it was the fear and bottled-up emotions that was the true divider of family and home that was addressed so well.
The editing here is celestial.
I love all of these songs so much, I even got to sing We Don’t Talk About Bruno in my a cappella group and I was Dolores
Abuela would be the villain in a society devoted to individualism and selfishness. Abuela would be a member who needs to be respected and understood in a society to focuses on family, memory, and community. I think Mirabel understood her task, unlike most American Tiktokers.
Could you elaborate? Because I'm not sure what American tiktokers have to do with this movie. And I don’t think Abuela is the villain. She just had a problem with control and image because she was afraid of losing “the miracle”. But in the end, she saw the error of her way and realized that her family is a miracle.
@@RukiyaReacts I'm glad you agree. Right now there are tons of tiktokers and posts on Instagram saying Abuela is unredeemable, that she is the villain, etc. It's like they didn't get the message if the movie and I suspect it has to do with economic and cultural values from North America, since all of these accounts are usually English speaking.
@@jaimepe4765
Yep, I've seen talk about Abuela being the villain.
Sadly, some of this is coming from people who were reminded of their own abusive families by this movie.....
@@jaimepe4765 This is a kinda selfish and mean-spirited point of view. You have to understand that individualism is not a bad thing. Sure, it can be taken to a dangerous extreme. But some people unfortunately feel obligated to take care of their abusive or narcissistic parents. What you’re touching on is a culture divide. You might believe that abandoning your abusive grandparents or parents is selfish, but others might disagree greatly. Respect is definitely a factor in these relationships, but phrases like “respect your elders” and “children are meant to be seen not heard” are used to undermine children and make them SUBSERVIENT to their authority figures. Tiktokers, who are probably young people who either undergo abuse under their parents or grandparents or have undergone that, probably don’t like the selfish qualities of Abuela and maybe resent the ending of the film. You have to understand that times are changing. It was customary for children and teens to blindly obey their parents, follow toxic social and gender norms, and take their abuse for the sake of being loyal in the past, but times are slightly different now. Remember, blood is not really thicker than water. You sound a bit like a boomer with the whole “tiktokers and their individualism blah blah blah” rhetoric, and I can assume that you either parent like Abuela or are in family with a member like her. Just because she faced a severely traumatic event doesn’t excuse her actions. And just because she suffers from that kind of trauma doesn’t make her exempt from criticism, no matter if it’s harsh or understanding. Also, don’t you think that some people, especially young people, are tired of seeing movies where the responsibility of taking care of a broken family falls on one of the children? Children and teens aren’t meant to be the saviors of their toxic families. Instead, they’re meant to blossom into maturity and have a sense of pride that will assist them in this cruel world. I honestly think having everything tied neatly by the end really does a disservice to those who constantly struggle with having to live with and take care of Abuelas in their family. It’s like saying “you’re suffering now, but just keep going because she or he’s your parent, and you’re indebted to them”. By the way, for people to “project” onto Abuela, they would have to see something in her character that they already experienced from a family member of theirs.
You can be for your family without excluding your own family for being the "black sheep" Abuela was so hard on Mirabel for not having a gift when SHE HERSELF DIDN'T HAVE A GIFT and she basically had her family shun her son because she was scared off losing her home instead of finding a way to solve the problem like Mirabel. She was villian but she was passing toxicity down to her family and deserved to be called out on that SO SHE COULD CHANGE this we have to forgive our elders because when they won't even acknowledge their flaws just because they are our elders just creates more toxic people.
6:49 The food that you are taking about is called “Arepas”. They’re basically made from corn and cheese **I think** and they’re **soo** good! And a Mexican food btw!
I feel like Abuela is the antagonist but not the villain. Because while she is almost always at odds with Mirabel, she’s not trying to harm her. She’s trying to do the thing that Mirabel is doing which is save the family and keep everything together it’s just she’s doing it in a dysfunctional way. The villain is the colonialism and the intergenerational trauma and how Elders in families of colour never speak about things that have happened to them in the past and instead fester and then trickle down, that’s the villain. Abuela was just more on opposing sides with Mirabel on how to go about things but with the same goal in mind: keeping their family together
Also I do think that Isabela/Mirabel hug was important because it set off the final chain of events that led to Casita breaking. Mirabel helping Isabela let go and be who she really is led to Abuela losing her mind when Isabela wasn’t “perfect“ which led to them fighting which led to Casita breaking which led to Mirabel going to the river where Abuela told her story where Mirabel and Abuela realised that there is more to the other and in the end helped the family get closer so it was a necessary event.
Very true! 💯
But she's not even an antagonist since this story isn't about fighting a person but about healing the generational trauma.
@@Furienna she’s firm against the plan Mirabel has, making her an antagonist.
@@NyikoDoris Kind of, but it doesn't mean that she has to be defeated by anybody.
It is not that kind of story...
@@Furienna I know it’s not and i’m not saying she had to be defeated… She and the protagonist overcame their obstacle by being honest with each other. She was just somebody who was against our main character not actively trying to harm her, but she was the antagonist… The generational trauma was the villain, and that’s what I meant in my original post.
One of the theories is that when Mirabel was having her gift ceremony, she touch the candle then wiped her hands, therefore “wiping” the miracle away.
6:03 Mirabel does have a gift she can pause time
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I memorized “we don’t talk about bruno” and sang it 24/7.
The best new Disney movie!🦋🌺
For sure one of my favourites at this moment!🥰💗
She was supposed to hug both of them Bruno said that the vision was out of order so she was supposed to hug Isabella first and then go where the butterfly was
The thing that was just sitting during Bruno's vision is called a Capybara. And the Big Cat that Antonio was riding is a Jaguar btw
Thank you!
@@RukiyaReacts No problem
After a long day at school very tired instead of doing the dishes I hope on my bed and watch RUKIYAS BEST VIDS THAT MAKE ME RELAX! I love your content rukiya❤❤❤!
Such a fun reaction, thank you!
Awe thank you for watching!🥰❤️
What I noticed what was completely upsetting is that as soon as mirabel was missing, they instantly looked for her, but when Bruno left, no one looked for him. 😢
10:13 you can see Bruno actually walking on the second floor “balcony”
The only reaction I have seen where they do not get visibly emotional. Interesting.
sis ur editing was next level
Thank you!! 😌✨
Easy to miss moment, but when Dolores says "He wants five babies." , Abuela plucks the one flower that doesn't match from Isabella's hair, showing the high standards for perfection she puts on her shoulders.
I love the editing on this! xD
Thank you!!
19:52 From 'The Lucy Show': 'Lucy and Arthur Godfrey'
Scene from the community play that's supposed to be about the founding of the home town though it has yet to be mentioned in the plot, 'Lucibelle' meets 'the poor but honest piano player:
Poor but Honest Piano Player: "I love you. Let's get married!"
Lucibelle: "I don't even know you!"
Poor but Honest Piano Player: "Can you think of a better way to get acquainted?"
Lucibelle: "Well no I can't!"
Side note: I love Mirabel and Isabella playing matchmaker
Agreed! They are cute matchmakers. I'm so happy to see Dolores end up with the guy she was admiring🥰
@@RukiyaReacts Bruno said 'the man of my dreams would be just out of reach, betrothed to another', but he didn't confirm the man of her dreams would be married to another
No but when when mirabel came for abuela like that it hit me and I’m not even the one she came for 😭
I know right?!😭
Rukiya makes me laugh every time I watch her vids! Keep up the good work! Love ur vids!
Ok I subscribed mostly because your skin is giving me life but also cuz ur comedic timing is on point 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Haha, thank you!!🥰❤️
6:45 As Mirabel Puts it “Nota pa con Caso”. Bruno Literally became a crackhead cause of Abuela. 10:55 I’m here for the drama.
3:18 YES FINALLY SOMEONE WHO SEES THE PEOPLE AS BAD GUYS🥳
I love ur hair omgggg❤❤❤
This is amazing! I had fun watching you react :)
Thank you!🥰
Mirabel is my favorite!. Lin-Manuel Miranda KILLED it with this soundtrack!!!!!!!!!. One of my favorite films from Disney. Surface Pressure and Waiting on a Miracle are my favorite songs.
4:25 ✨🥺*+I need you +*🥺✨ awwww😭😭😭😭
16:34 That's a good 👍😊 observation 😂😅😊😊 never thought about it like that
Btw at 14:46 that’s a capybara
14:35 it's a CAPPYBARA the greatest animal ever
Just subscribed! Loved this, the edits are *chefs kiss*.
Thank you so much!!
19:58 we see how brave you been ❤❤